ActionSA can reveal that the GNU spent more than R3.7 billion on VIP and static protection services in the 2024/25 financial year.
ActionSA is deeply saddened and outraged by the senseless death of 10-year-old Mpho Ednah Mabudu, who was tragically killed on Thursday, 15 January 2026, in Midoroni Village.
Following confirmation of the deaths of two illegal miners at the Lily Mine in Mpumalanga, ActionSA demands that the Minister of Police and the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources urgently account for the escalating proliferation of illegal mining.
Following a brief appearance at the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court and being granted bail, full focus turns back to the communities of Ekurhuleni so that we can continue the fight to fix this city.
ActionSA is deeply concerned by the scale of destruction caused by the recent heavy rains and flooding across Mpumalanga.
Remarks delivered by ActionSA National Chairperson, Michael Beaumont at the #HandsOffXolani Picket in Katlehong.
ActionSA has written to the Joint Standing Committee on Defence requesting an urgent probe into troubling developments surrounding the reported defiance of the President’s lawful instructions by senior SANDF officials during the recent joint naval drills conducted in Simon’s Town last week.
South Africans are drowning in a tidal wave of drugs, crime and lawlessness. Families in townships and suburbs alike are living with fear, losing loved ones to addiction, gang violence, and criminal syndicates that operate with increasing boldness. Into this rupture walks Xolani Khumalo Mayoral candidate for ActionSA in Ekurhuleni. A citizen who declared war on drugs and lawlessness in Ekurhuleni because the state has failed to protect its people. His statement was clear: “I knew that when I declared war on drug dealers and lawlessness… they would target me, but this is a fight we are ready for!”
On Monday, 19 January 2026, ActionSA’s Ekurhuleni Mayoral Candidate, Cllr Xolani Khumalo, will voluntarily hand himself over to the South African Police Service. This follows leaks from within SAPS indicating an intention to arrest Khumalo on charges of assault relating to an incident involving a self-confessed drug dealer in 2025.
ActionSA notes with deep concern and disappointment the announcement by British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) that it will close its manufacturing plant in Heidelberg, Gauteng, ending local production by year-end.
